Announcing

flowerintherain

I definetly dont want to announce at Christmas..thats too soon for my taste.
I'm thinking about announcing on DS first birthday at his party(Feb). I think it would be cute to put a "big brother" t shirt and pair of newborn shoes in a box and have it be one of his presents. His grandparents will be helping him unwrap stuff im sure. I'll be around 14 weeks at that point and we may even know the gender if we do the blood test again this time around. 
Do you guys think that's cute? Or do you think it would take too much attention off the birthday boy? 

dmbfan46835

flowerintherain said:

I definetly dont want to announce at Christmas..thats too soon for my taste.
I'm thinking about announcing on DS first birthday at his party(Feb). I think it would be cute to put a "big brother" t shirt and pair of newborn shoes in a box and have it be one of his presents. His grandparents will be helping him unwrap stuff im sure. I'll be around 14 weeks at that point and we may even know the gender if we do the blood test again this time around. 
Do you guys think that's cute? Or do you think it would take too much attention off the birthday boy? 

Omg! So cute! Do this ^^^!!! It will be so memorable! 

SouthernMama15

@flowerintherain my sister announced at my niece's birthday party. They told her the night before her party and after she opened her presents, they took her in her room and told everyone there was one last gift. I had made her a t shirt that said I'm going to be a big sister and she wore it out for everyone to see. It was really sweet 

knottie0d8cc4d43bacc09f

@flowerintherain Do it!! That's such a sweet idea. I don't think it'd take too much attention away from the birthday boy, especially if you do it as the last gift.

bertsbees77

My inlaws will be here tomorrow and we plan to tell them and the LO's on Christmas morning. I have a few presents wrapped up under the Christmas tree already, but one of them is unmarked and hidden waaaay in the back. Inside are a pack of unisex newborn onesies that read "I'm new here"... you think they'll get the picture?

Mango517

I went really basic on telling my husband. After watching the line get darker for a few days I woke him up one morning and told him while we were still in bed. He was shocked and then had to rush off to work because he had an early meeting. Timing is not my strongest suit.

 As ideal as the holidays are for making our announcement, we're holding off since I'm only going to be est. 4w5d on Christmas. So now I have to fake drink my way through a bunch of family time while people ask (hound) us about when we're having kids...

donehue

@Mango517 I have already fake drank through THREE Christmas parties - it is the worst. I just want to moan to everybody about it too, but you can't! That's what this board is for

I kept it from my husband and for a week (was trying to wait until Christmas, but failed) so he assumed my cycle was off and there was no good news. I put all of the tests I had taken into a box from our favorite jeweler and wrapped it and before our company Christmas party (we work together) and told him I thought he needed to have this before all of our parties so he really thought it was jewelry. He was so shocked!  I think his jaw is still kind of on the floor. Probably the only time in my life I will be able to surprise him!

M&AFischer

We are doing a shirt at Christmas. I'm interested to see how long it takes people to see what it says. 

Jmccabe12210

First ultrasound isn't until 1/20 so going to try and wait for Valentines Day. I will feel more comfortable then. I hope I can hold out! 

Bountifulbride

I'm telling DH Christmas morning (it has been SO STRANGE keeping it from him because I usually tell him seconds after a BFP). I am writing him a sweet note and then I will box up the positive pregnancy test for him to open. I haven't decided when to tell our five older kids yet. Extended family/friends/social media will definitely be once we are in the second trimester.

diaTROF

Nooo! I have been doing that the second I got a bfp

kcagle0528

I'm telling my parents Christmas Eve and the in-laws Christmas night. I made them ornaments as a surprise...they have no idea we were trying!

lynkat

Ordered these yesterday and should be arriving tonight. DS is going to walk into my parent's house later this week with the brother bear shirt on. Then I figured I could save these for a photo opp once little is here. My DH's family doesn't keep secrets well so we are waiting to tell them. DH and I have both told our best friends. I am waiting to tell work as long as possible, although if my MS is as bad as last time, I'll have to share earlier than I would like. Everyone else will probably find out after our anatomy scan at 20 weeks.

SarahBethBR

I told my parents the day we saw the positive test on Facetime.  We got pregnant through IUI and my parents knew about the treatment so there was no reason not to tell them.  For my ILs, we bought a pillow that says "Grandma and Grandpa, established 2017" and had it shipped to them.  They will open it on Christmas while we're on the phone like they always do with their gifts.  I'm just going to tell my brother on the phone before we see each other for Christmas because he and his wife are also going through IF treatment and I want them to be able to process their feelings before seeing the whole family.

I am also planning on telling my grandparents, aunt/uncle, and a couple of cousins at a family celebration on NYE.  We have our first u's on the 30th so assuming things are good I think I'll feel comfortable telling them.  We're thinking about getting everyone to pose for a group picture, and instead of saying "say cheese" my H will say "everybody say Sarah's pregnant!"

belmont1785

We finally decided on ornaments. I found these and will put DDs picture on the left side and "august 2017" on the right. We will give it as the last gift of the gift opening. I'm so excited. .

jessica&11

These are sooo cute mine did not come out that well lol

Lauradi1010

We are waiting to tell family until we are out of first trimester (Feb. 8th).  I have no idea how I will keep it a secret for that long since our families will most likely notice I am not drinking for Christmas.  I've also felt continually & mildly nauseous for two weeks now and it is getting worse.   We may end up telling people sooner if my file who has been sick takes a turn for the worst.

Letsmakebabynmbr1

Both me and hubby's parents will be with us for Christmas, and we don't want to keep it a secret! We are telling people closest to us but will wait until later for others. I'm planning to decorate some ornaments to have them open as gifts. Our parents are going to flip out! First baby from us, and first grandchild on my husband's side.

bertsbees77

We're going to tell the inlaws and the girls on Christmas Day. There is an unmarked present with newborn onesies and the announcement picture inside. It will probably be the last to be opened:) I'm getting really excited. Also I'm over being called grumpy... "I'm not grumpy I'm PREGNANT!"

kcagle0528

@bertsbees77 Lol! My hormones kicked in today  (5 weeks, 3 days) and I am a monster! I'm also on progesterone so I think that's making things worse. 

HappySweetLuv

We took photos at the playground of our DD holding up an "I'm going to be a BIG SISTER" sign as well as regular photos. We print out an 8x10 of the regular photo where our DD came out super cute and placed it in a frame. The BIG SISTER photo we printed out a 5x7 and also framed it. I placed the 5x7 at the bottom of the gift box, covered it with tissue and placed the 8x10 on top. We will be giving these as Christmas gifts to my parents and my MIL as their last gifts to open. Our DD is 3 yo so we haven't shared the news with her just yet. The first time we got pregnant we had a miscarriage, so we are just being cautious in sharing the news with her until we know for sure all is going well. We won't be sharing with the rest of the family until the 3 month mark like we did with DD! We'll announce to everyone else once we know if it's a girl or boy.

russetmile

We will be sharing the news with our closest family and friends this Christmas, we will make the "official" announcement after the 1st Trimester.
To announce the pregnancy, I have my DD holding a chalkboard with the words"Last Christmas as an only child" at our Christmas photo shoot.
I printed the photos and hid the Pregnancy Reveal photo in plain sight, with other photos in the collage.
I'll be giving the Photo Collage frames to my parents. And I'm looking forward to their reaction.

dimsum4everyone

I'm having trouble deciding when to tell. I was originally thinking that I would wait until the end of February to announce to family. For my family, it could be special to announce on February 26th since that would have been my great-grandma's 100th birthday. That will be 14 weeks for me and I would feel totally comfortable telling the world then.

But then I was also thinking maybe Chinese New Year. DH is Chinese-American. It falls on January 28th this year, so that will be 9.5 weeks.

The problem is my grandmother-in-law. I'm currently visiting her for the week. She has been incessantly asking about my "monthlies." She is 93 with 12 grandchildren of marriageable and baby-rearing ages (between 24 and 36) but no great-grandbabies yet. She is really pushing for one. And since she prompted me so hard and explicitly, I told her I was waiting for my period. Now I've tested and gotten my BFP, but that news is just for me and DH. However, she has instructed me to see the doctor when I go home and check about a pregnancy and report to her immediately. I don't know if I can just ignore her for a month before Chinese New Year even though that timeline seems so much more manageable from my perspective. I just know that when I tell her, the cat will definitely be out of the bag... she cannot under any circumstances be expected to keep her mouth shut, so every last 4th cousin and her hairdresser will know thereafter... and then if anything goes wrong or comes up with the pregnancy, there won't be a buffer between DH and me and the world.

Advice welcome!!

hisdaisy9987

Just found out this morning I'm pregnant! Due Date should be August 29th. Going to wait to tell family until after we get an ultrasound at 8 weeks. Social media after 1st trimester. This is how I'm telling my husband tonight as he comes to dinner

churl1

Opinions anyone? I'd love to tell family at Xmas but my first scan isn't until December 29. I don't want to jump the gun but I also don't know we how I'm going to get away with no drinking at Xmas without family becoming suspicious. This is my first pregnancy so I'm not sure if I should tell family or wait till after my first scan.

emluvspink

We are announcing to my husbands side tomorrow night (Christmas Eve) He only has one niece so we had a shirt made that says "Future Big Cousin" with the date. As well as a shirt made for me that says "The best gift ever! Expecting delivery August 2017."

I will sneak her in the back, change, then we will walk out together.

We will tell my parents, sister, brother-n-law and grandparents on Christmas.

I have the original baby bloomers that say Grandma and Grandpa on them my mom gave to my grandparents when she found out she was pregnant with me. I am giving her those. My sister is 5 months pregnant so I had a onsie for them made that says "Future big cousin." And for my grandparents a box with a pacifier in it with a cute saying. 

I'm so excited but it doesn't seem real still. I think once my close families knows it will feel real then!

I will only be 6 weeks but we are way too close to our families not to tell them. They are our biggest support so if anything did happen they would know anyways.
Merry Christmas everyone!

oriole2017

I'm in the same boat as some of you. FTM about 5w now so I know it's super early. Haven't even had my first US to confirm due date, just an HCG blood test for level which confirms weeks since LMP. My first US is Jan 10 but I'd like to tell family now in person while I'm in town. Figured I'd just tell mine and DH's parents. We are both unsure if they can truly keep this between themselves until the end of the first trimester when we want to announce. I really don't want them to tell extended family but I know we won't be back for a visit again to tell them in person. I'm not showing or having any noticeable symptoms so they can't figure it out and they have absolutely no idea we were trying. 

oriole2017

I forgot to mention, I picked up two Christmas cards for the parents, and I was going to sign them with our names and Baby as our way of telling them when they open their card. Subtle and cute I think but that's what we prefer. Thoughts? 

jsaffer01

I told my hubby right after I took the test, I can't hold things like that in. And we're telling our parents on Xmas. I'm already starting to get morning sickness all day, so I can't hide it. We're having my son give the gifts to our parents and it's a picture in a frame. This is the picture. 

kauny991

oriole2017

Told the parents today. Not sure if they were just in shock or truly didn't get the card at first. But once they did or came out of it they were thrilled.  
We signed our cards
my name
his name
Baby Z (Aug 2017).  

kodariah

We suck at secrets do we already told our families. I don't like to wait we just madea big brother shirt for our LO and waited until the family noticed on Christmas. 

Sail@way

This is our second and I didn't want to wait the traditional time so we announced with a Santa picture. We were just too excited!

Cryssteen

I waited until something like 18 weeks with my first because I'm crazy.  I have a second US this week (first was a little early at 6+3w) so once I positively certainly Hear a HB for the second time, we'll tell our immediate families.  This is how I told my husband and I was thinking of doing the same for the fam.

mrsvp614

I LOVED announcing to my DH.
We exchanged gifts Christmas Eve night, and I got my BFP that morning, so while he was at work I bought a cute reindeer onsie, and wrapped it for him. He was shocked and so excited! 
He had said earlier in the month that this would be the "best Christmas gift ever" and I'm amazed that the timing worked out the way it did. 

Since this is our first, we will probably wait until after our first appt at 8 wks to tell our families. It's a hard secret to keep, but I also like that it's just between us for a while.

Ambertubbs90

This was our announcement on Christmas Eve

mamadoaks

@LifeAtMyOwnPace We are a blended family with my SO having 3 kids from 2 previous relationships and me having 1 from my previous marriage. This baby is going to be a whole new experience especially since we are still kind of a new relationship as well. I'm happy to see im not the only one!

mamadoaks

I can't keep my mouth shut so my coworkers and a few friends know. (im 5w5d). Not telling our families yet because i havent met his dad and step mom and my parents arent going to be super thrilled at first due to my recent divorce and how quick this is happening. I refuse to let anyone make me feel guilty about having a baby so I'm going to wait till my doc apt on 1/10 and then we will probably announce. Via a group text. lol

cltweed

I feel like the excitement sort of wanes with each kid you have, so I'm anticipating a "Oh, another one? Good for you." response this time ...  Half-kidding. I was 8 weeks Monday and have heard the HB, so I feel comfortable sharing the news. If something were to happen, I would be thankful to have the support. I'm an only child and my parents will be excited, as will my in-laws. We were going to do it at Christmas, but we announced #2 at Christmas and wanted to do something different. We're going to tell our big kids on NYE, right before their fake "ball drop" at 10:00 on YouTube (parenting win!  and then let them call all our immediate family members with something like, "Happy New Year from all SIX of us!" I'm the most excited to tell my kids because I think they're going to be over the moon. For a FB/IG announcement, I think we'll do it on NY day. We used an adorable safety pin announcement with our third (and then, ironically, that same baby SWALLOWED a safety pin when she was 4 months old- see whole story in the parenting fails thread...) and we also made a hi-lar-i-ous Ice Ice Baby video, but I can't be trying to top all that. Because #tootired. I think we're going for a Star Wars "The FOURTH is with us." that I found on Pinterest (where else?). 

dinofreak

I live in a really small island town, and my husband works in the pharmacy, so keeping it under wraps is never gonna happen. I have a bit of an obsession with dinosaurs, so we gave my parents a dino egg from my collection with a loooong piece of paper that said at the end "hatching August 2017." My mom got it right away, my stepmom took like 5 minutes to get it. For my in-laws, huge Seahawks fans, we said "There's one more gift we didn't get that we'd like to ask you guys for..." and gave them a printout of a Seahawks jersey onesie. They were overjoyed  

I have my first appointment on Tuesday, and my ultrasound the next week. I'm O negative blood type, so they want to make sure that my body isn't going to attack a "foreign object." We plan on telling our close friends and facebook after that.